Tianqi saw that Liu Zongzhou's words had the meaning of saying that he had reversed himself, and he wanted to explain it, but he was afraid that the more he described it, the darker it would be, and there would be another incident, because some things are not easy to explain, and a sentence needs a few words to explain, and there are more and more places that need to be explained when others ask why. For this reason, Apocalypse wants to use other things to change the topic, intending to delay it in the end. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here.

Who knew that Liu Zongzhou had another problem for Tianqi, he said to Tianqi: "Your Majesty, there is no need to hold a debate with Qiao Yingjia, in fact, they also said that they have no disobedience to the emperor, but they just think that the emperor has a problem with the method of employing people like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it is only fair that it can be the same." ”

Apocalypse asked, "A few days ago, I asked your Holy Academy to think about how to use talents to be fair and reasonable, and what kind of methods can be used to convince them, you won't be thinking about how to find my fault in the past few days and forget about the business, right?" ”

Liu Zongzhou said with a smile: "The emperor has misunderstood, how dare the minister?" To be fair and reasonable means to conform to the rationality of employing people and to convince people, and this issue cannot be discussed overnight. But they were convinced that the ministers only used one sentence to achieve their goal temporarily, and the ministers told them that the emperor directly appointed the position instead of pushing it as before, because now that Liaodong is at war, it is an emergency period, and the emperor needs to use people who are comfortable to do things to avoid delays, and when everything is right, the emperor will naturally use fair and reasonable methods. ”

Tianqi looked at Liu Zongzhou in a daze, and said for a while: "It turns out that Lord Liu still uses the strategy of delaying the army, according to Lord Liu's words, this direct appointment is not appropriate, and now this is a matter of urgency, and in the future, should we still take the road of court pushing?" ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "The minister thinks that this is exactly the case. Gao Panlong also nodded on the side.

It seems that this dead-brained person who admits reason only recognizes reason and does not care about interests, although most of the people directly appointed by the Apocalypse are members of the Donglin Party, but they have not given up their ideas for this reason. I feel very speechless about such an inflexible person Tianqi, but after thinking about it, it is not a bad thing to have a few more such brainless people in the court, it is better than those who are also cloudy, but there are more people like this, and it is troublesome, and in general, there are too few people who are knowledgeable and competent.

From a deeper level, these ministers want to be promoted by the court and not directly appointed by the emperor and some ministers are all ♀ readers who read the books of sages and sages, and the idea of "the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light" has taken root in their hearts, not to mention the saying that the king and the scholars rule the world together, so they think that they are doing things for the court rather than for the emperor personally. In their eyes, only eunuchs did private things for the emperor, and officials called themselves ministers in front of the emperor, and eunuchs could only call themselves slaves.

Scholars are all characteristic, and a talented person like Zhuge Liang needs Liu Bei to ask him again and again to be willing to go out of the mountain, showing that he is not a slave who sells himself to take refuge, and many officials in the Ming Dynasty have this kind of mind. From this point of view, it can be shown that many officials in the DPRK are still very admirable, much better than those who do not hesitate to give their wives and daughters to their bosses in order to be promoted.

Under this ideological inheritance of separating the emperor from the imperial court, unconditional loyalty to the emperor sometimes means that this loyalty is only directed to the emperor's position, not to the person who is the emperor. Like Ming Yingzong in the "Tumubao Incident", soon after he was captured, the Ming Dynasty court made his brother emperor, and many people at that time felt that the dead Ming Yingzong was better than the living Ming Yingzong. In the eyes of these officials, who are ministers but not servants, sometimes the emperor is just a symbol.

In the hearts of the officials, since they were doing things for the imperial court, they should themselves be recognized by the imperial court, and the emperor could only represent the imperial court at certain times, such as receiving foreign envoys and mobilizing troops to resist aggression. Most of the time, the officials who can represent the court are the officials in the court, such as the officials in charge of personnel and the household department in charge of finances.

An ordinary official, many people also understand that a person who nods to himself is just asking for a position under his ass, which does not mean how smart and great he is. Whether a person is truly respected depends on the attitude of people towards him when he is not in his position, and many people understand this, but many people do not want to admit it, and they prefer to believe that their subordinates flatter them because they are wise and intelligent.

The Apocalypse is not Chongchu, it is precisely because he knows that he urgently needs a fair and reasonable political order, and he has placed this need on Liu Zongzhou and his Holy Academy, but he has not yet received a satisfactory answer.

Seeing that Liu Zongzhou's thoughts were always on wanting to return to the previous Tingtui, Tianqi had no way to think about it and said: "Since the previous thing existed, it must have a reason to exist, if nothing else, I will definitely not be ingenious to change it." In the more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, many ministers in the court have pushed out a lot through the court, and among these people, there are many ministers like Yan Song, and many capable ministers are not pushed by the court, and from this point of view, the court push also has its shortcomings. ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "There are very few things in this world that are perfect, since the emperor has eliminated the use of officials to perfection, the ministers will do it wholeheartedly after they go back." ”

Apocalypse said: "Don't be in a hurry, what I mean is not to try to find a perfect system, and don't detach from reality to imagine out of thin air, just work on the court push system to improve the system as much as possible, first to clarify the purpose, our purpose is to make the court push system gradually become less flawed, more effective, and fair, ♀ I think it is not a delaying measure, but something that needs to be clarified in the future." That is to say, under normal circumstances, I want to directly appoint everyone, and there can be no objection to it. ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Since the emperor has decided to improve the system instead of asking his ministers to reopen the stove, the problem has become much simpler. It's just that what does the emperor mean by the special circumstances? The minister told them that because Liaodong was at war, it was a special situation, did the emperor refer to anything else? ”

Apocalypse said: "The so-called special circumstances should refer to wars, civil uprisings, natural disasters, etc., right? And even now, even before you have perfected the court push system, it is considered a special situation. Now that the Mongols have not come to make trouble, and the Jurchens have heard that they have also sent troops to the north, as long as the Holy Academy has perfected the court promotion system, I will no longer interfere in the selection of civil officials, and Lord Liu will go back and tell them to let them cheer. Also, Qiao Yingjia, aren't they complaining that I'm unfair? Let them also participate in figuring out a way, and you can't always ask questions alone and make others worry while he himself watches the excitement. ”

Seeing that Tianqi made concessions and no longer asked for a re-establishment of the system but only for the improvement of the old system, Liu Zongzhou and Gao Panlong couldn't help but show a triumphant smile on their faces.

Seeing that Liu Zongzhou, Gao Panlong and others were keen on the Tingtui system, if they had not known that this system had existed for a long time, Tianqi would have thought that they had been poisoned by the ideas of bourgeois liberalization. Tianqi knew that there were a group of foreigners in Xu Guangqi's Bo Academy, and while helping the Bo Academy to do things, he was also secretly preaching in private, making people believe in Jesus, not believing in the gods and Buddhas of the Ming Dynasty. Their propaganda is that the Lord does not need to believe in wood and clay in his heart, there is only one Lord in the world, and the others are heretics, and they do not need to spend money to worship incense, wax, and lamp oil, so as to save money and benefits. Their rhetoric touched many people, including Xu Guangqi, who is said to have become a religious believer and changed his foreign name.

The apocalypse doesn't care about those, as long as they can bring new ideas and new technologies and will not rebel, but it should also be noted that some of their ideas that slander the imperial power and push the system are native and sprouted ideological products, and I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing to improve this system now, I hope not to become a freak, and not to defeat the Jurchens and Mongols with the centralized power in their hands by then, and the ministers under them have risen up to ask for ** It will be troublesome.

Just when Tianqi sighed, Liu Zongzhou's brainless spirit flared up again, and he said: "Your Majesty, since the debate on the use of the system by officials has not been held, can the emperor say that on the issue of merchants' shares, why did he directly implement it without waiting for the Holy Academy to discuss it?" ”